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MetricNature-related loss and damage to infrastructure

Capital expenditure on infrastructure repair or replacement due to nature-related loss and damage

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports capital expenditure during the reporting period for repairing or replacing infrastructure damaged by nature-related loss and damage.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Single value
Unit
currency — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Sum qualifying capital expenditure on infrastructure repair or replacement attributable to nature-related loss and damage.
Pillar
Governance
Topic
Nature-related loss and damage to infrastructure
Controlled domain
Nature, biodiversity and land
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Reporting entity's infrastructure repair or replacement capital expenditure attributed to nature-related loss and damage.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD LEAP approach

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    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.1, October 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    TNFD LEAP Approach v1.1, Annex 1, Table 26, PDF page 173, metric row 1
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD Recommendations

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, Annex 2, Table 9, A8.2, p. 94
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD Recommendations

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    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Page 94, Table 9, A8.2 | TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, Annex 2, Table 9, A8.2, p. 94
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
currency — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: Values use currency under the disclosed TNFD Recommendations method, period, location and reporting boundary.

Published dimensions

  • spend purpose: infrastructure repair or replacement
  • nature-related issue type: loss and damage
  • currency
  • attribution method: direct or proxy

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Sum

Formula

Infrastructure repair or replacement capital expenditure = Σ_i qualifying repair or replacement capital expenditure_i attributable to nature-related loss and damage.

Apply the source-defined TNFD Recommendations method only within the disclosed location, ecosystem and value-chain boundary. A8.2 identifies a standalone monetary expenditure outcome. Its repair-or-replacement purpose and loss-and-damage attribution make it distinct from general capital deployed towards nature-related risks and from adaptation capital expenditure. No shortlisted existing metric has the same construct, boundary and value shape.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
capital expenditure_iQualifying infrastructure repair or replacement capital expenditureCapital expenditure for infrastructure repair or replacement record i attributed to nature-related loss and damage.currency

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

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Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 27 August 2026

    Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures

    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Locator
    TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, Annex 2, Table 9, A8.2, p. 94

    Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Capital expenditure on infrastructure repair or replacement due to nature-related loss and damage”.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, September 2023.

  • Disclose the reporting currency.
  • Disclose the infrastructure boundary covered.
  • Disclose the basis for attributing loss and damage to nature-related causes.
  • Disclose the basis for classifying expenditure as repair or replacement capital expenditure.
  • Disclose whether attribution is direct or proxy-based.

Record-specific limitations

  • This is an Annex 2 optional additional global metric in TNFD Recommendations September 2023, not an Annex 1 core global metric.
  • The metric concerns repair or replacement expenditure following nature-related loss and damage; it is not a measure of broader adaptation expenditure.
  • The extracted evidence does not establish a universal attribution method for determining that loss and damage is nature-related.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.